Mixed Mountain Dews and Death

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I hit a low point today

So it was lucky that i had a good day otherwise it wouldve been lower.
Its like everyday I notice more and more hate, and i hate it..
Like I dislike many things and say i hate them..but i dont really hate anyone or anything
Im pretty Liberal, even though i can be close minded in my liberalness.

It happened today right before work. My mom and I were eating dinner, and the news was on in the other room, well we heard something about the legalization of gay marriage in california, and my mom said "ha whats wrong with the world? how could they let gays get married? the worlds coming to an end soon with all this crap"

Now she comes from an EXTREMELY conservative family as do I, but im not at all, so its understandable when she says that..but just cause its understood doesnt mean its right. And i didnt say anything to avoid conflict and cause shes entitled to her opinion w/e but it just struck something in me, that theres people out there that without knowing some people they judge so harshly, my mom isnt the only one, in any sense but there so many wrong things about her statement like

1) Gay marriage consists of people being in love (or should be lol) just the same as straight marriage, so they shouldnt be criticizing, in fact, gay marriages tend to last longer than straight ones (statistically speaking) And if theyre happy who cares? I mean theyre not coming from house to house killing babies and burning houses, theyre just minding their own business.

2) what has the world come to? Apparently more acceptance, and whats wrong about that? Nothing! Acceptance leads to love and loving all people is what we should aim for of all sexualities, races, ethnicities, nationalities, colors, sexes, religions, etc. etc.

3) The worlds coming to an end? WTF? Yeah in theBible God is always destroying sinful places, like Earth, in Genesis or Sodom and Gomorrah also in Genesis, but because they were wicked places who never welcomed Gods Angels, or people.
And yeah Leviticus might condemn homosexuality, but it also condems eating seafood that isnt fish, and eating fat from animals (look at america), and pork, andit says to not wear clothes from 2 kinds of material,(lev. 19:18) and to not tattoo or cut the hair on the sides of ur head, do not mistreat aliens, and if u curse ur mother and father, u should be put to death, i mean theres countless of these laws and actions that are considered wrong or unclean, but why do we only look at one so severly? Isnt that picking and choosing? I bet many of you have done at least one of these, so why should only one of these people get punished severly?

Am i standing up for gay rights? Damn right I am, especially in a religious view, i may not be one, but i know whats right and wrong, and discriminating one group of people because of ones own ignorance to the interpretation of the bible,arrogance to see a more loving way, closemindedness, or personal insecurities is wrong, especially since you might believe in the Bible as the ultimate rulebook/guide to life..the treat it as such and follow ALL of it, not just whats convinient, and if u do pick and choose, thats ok...but ADMIT that you pick and choose, at least u wont be a hypocrite anymore, and you'll be more honest that half the world. Jesus preached love...to EVERYONE, that doesnt mean some people...u dont have to do what others do, but love them anyway..and discrimination is not a good way to show that... how will you look in front of Jesus in heaven when he points out this fault?

Good Luck with that if this is your case =]

p.s.
I pick and choose openly, but i stick to what i do, and ill tell you straight out